Albert Einstein

Hebrew University's centennial: Einstein's legacy and the guardian of a scientific icon

Einstein's letters, theories, and Jewish legacy will live on in the hills of Jerusalem at the Hebrew University.

 Professor Hanoch Gutfruend is a physics professor, former Hebrew University president, and Academic Head of the Einstein Archive. He showed The Jerusalem Post around the archives to mark 100 years of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
 An aerial view of Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Mount Scopus campus.

100 years of innovation: Hebrew University of Jerusalem celebrates centennial

 A memorial commemorating the murder of Robert Einstein's family, located at the Badiuzza cemetery in Italy.

'After Images': The tragedy of Albert Einstein’s cousin Robert - review

 CILLIAN MURPHY plays J. Robert Oppenheimer in ‘Oppenheimer,’ written, produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan.

Was J. Robert Oppenheimer a Zionist? Sort of - opinion


What did Einstein think of Zionism, Jewish nationalism? - review

Volume 17 contains an intriguing expression of Albert Einstein’s strong support for Zionism in the early 1920s.

Albert Einstein

The Einstein effect: How a Jewish scientist hit mainstream culture - opinion

Cohen’s favorite Einstein quote is 'have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.'

 ALBERT EINSTEIN

Grapevine, May 15, 2024: Confusion between national defense and racism

Eurovision, Einstein and the global politics.

 EDEN GOLAN, representing Israel, performs ‘Hurricane’ during the Grand Final of the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest, in Malmo, Sweden, last week.

Jewish widow gives $1 billion to NYC medical school to pay for student tuition

Dr. Ruth Gottesman is making the donation from the fortune made by her late husband David "Sandy" Gottesman, a Wall Street financier and early Berkshire Hathaway investor.

 Un empleado trabaja con células madre en el laboratorio del doctor Ali Ertuerk en Múnich, Alemania 23 de abril de 2019.

Right again, Einstein! Study shows how antimatter responds to gravity

Under current theory, the Big Bang explosion that initiated the universe should have produced equal amounts of matter and antimatter. This, however, does not seem to be the case.

 A lonely Milky Way Analogue galaxy, too massive for its wall. The background image shows the distribution of dark matter (green and blue) and galaxies (here seen as tiny yellow dots) in a thin slice of the cubic volume in which we expect to find one of such rare massive galaxies.

Revealed in a letter: Albert Einstein's secret plan to save Jewish professor from Nazi Germany

The letter reveals Einstein's desperate appeal to Scottish philosopher Sir William David Ross to aid in the rescue of a Jewish German philosopher targeted by Nazis.

Albert Einstein

Hubble telescope captures galaxy clusters merging

Gravitational lensing has the practical effect of a magnifying glass, microscope, or binoculars, and enables scientists to observe celestial bodies that would otherwise be too distant to discern.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope

Einstein’s letter rebuking creationism up for auction

The letter is valued to be worth $125,000 USD (approximately 451,500 NIS). Other letters from the great scientist have fetched $3 million USD at auction.

Albert Einstein in 1947

At the heart of the film ‘Oppenheimer’ is a clash between real-life Jews 

The animosity between Strauss and Oppenheimer had probably several different dimensions.

 The mushroom cloud of the first test of a hydrogen bomb, "Ivy Mike", as photographed on Enewetak, an atoll in the Pacific Ocean, in 1952, by a member of the United States Air Force's Lookout Mountain.

Scientists discover that universe is awash in gravitational waves

The discovery was announced seven years after researchers announced that they had first detected the existence of gravitational waves generated by two distant black holes

 Artistic rendition of two short gamma-ray bursts in a collapsing star.

Jerusalem's Hebrew University to showcase Albert Einstein to the world

Exactly a century after the great scientist visited the Hebrew University, the cornerstone is laid for a museum that will shine a spotlight on Albert Einstein.

 THE CORNERSTONE is laid for the Albert Einstein museum (from L): Maria and Jose Mugrabi, Yishai Fraenkel, Hebrew University vice president and director-general; and Hebrew University president Prof. Asher Cohen.